Word: shellful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having previously extended the promise of flexible "general revenue sharing" funds to meet "pressing local priorities," the President has now dismantled any rational federal approach to urban problems, and has beat a hasty retreat from substantial funding of legitimate and proven federal programs. The "New Federalism" emerges as a shell game of enormous proportions for the cities of this nation...as essentially a bureaucratic hocus-pocus in which poor people, blacks, the elderly, and others who seek hope and opportunity in our central cities will be forced to play the role...
...shell game at the local level means that for every new dollar we receive in general revenue sharing, we will lose $5 in traditional federal funding. We will be forced to rob Peter to pay Paul, and the hard arithmetic shows that we will end up starving both...
...West Coast, Lou Galliani, is the epitome of the new look in rising record-company executives, tricked out in velvet jeans, flowery shirts, shell beads around his neck and African trading beads around his wrist. He carries a leather shoulder bag and has a house near San Francisco that is decorated with animals, tropical fish and a delectable girl friend. Galliani sends the usual flowers and small gifts to radio-station employees (the bag limit is $25 by FCC law), procures the usual concert tickets and arranges the usual listener contests for trips to Hawaii with Elvis, or whatever...
...proverb, is a place where "dog eats stone and chicken eats salt." It is easy to appreciate this bit of folk wisdom, writes Aikman. The ugly garbage of war still sprawls obscenely on either side of Highway 1, Viet Nam's major coastal artery. Thousands of U.S.-made shell casings are piled in dull gray heaps. Now and then a refugee village, with its ludicrously colored wooden packing-case houses, appears on the horizon. As one drives closer to Quang Tri city, however, nothing but the rusting carcasses of trucks, ambulances and tanks-both American and Russian-litter...
...encyclical condemning "artificial" contraception, the Humanae Vitae, which did for his reign what the Vietnam war did for Lyndon Johnson's, is a marvel of obfuscation. Wills spends a long chapter unwinding its ponderous coils of theological reasoning and concludes that the whole elaborate structure rests on an empty shell. The subject of contraception is, by the Pope's own account, a matter of "natural law"--not a revealed mystery, not part of a special deposit of truths entrusted to the church; but a teaching "in accord with all men's natural reason." Accordingly, the Pope appointed a special commission...